Heartbreak Tango

Name: Heartbreak Tango
Author: Manuel Puig

by Manuel Puig

Novel mixing melodrama, tango, and illicit romance in mid-century Argentina

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Manuel Puig

Argentine novelist who used soap opera, film dialogue, and pop culture to create radically innovative fiction about gender, desire, and politics. Kiss of the Spider Woman is his masterwork, later adapted as a famous play and film.

More by Manuel Puig

Kiss of the Spider WomanNovel of political prisoner and transgender woman bonded in cell by cinema
Betrayed by Rita HayworthNarrative of mother's life told through conflated memories and Hollywood cinema
The Buenos Aires AffairCrime thriller of sexual obsession and psychological terror in Buenos Aires